Sentences with phrase «elected assembly of»

In contrast, the Icelandic model of a directly elected assembly of non-politicians simply would not translate into the British context.

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Instead of correcting course to avoid further catastrophe, the Maduro regime is attempting to circumvent sanctions through the Petro digital currency — a ploy that Venezuela's democratically - elected National Assembly has denounced and Treasury has cautioned U.S. persons to avoid,» Mnuchin said in a statement.

Rep. Mike Coffman, R - Colo., introduced the Protecting Against Tyranny and Responsible Imports Act, or the PATRIA Act, that would target Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro after he stripped the country's democratically elected national assembly of its power and authority.

He was first elected to the House of Assembly in 1993 and became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1995.

Electing a new Speaker The first order of business when the Assembly convenes this Spring will be the election of a new Speaker for the first time since 1997.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

The assembly delegates elect a board of trustees, a president (usually a minister), and a moderator (usually a layperson).

In other traditions the practice of doing theology authoritatively is institutionalized in the powers of constitutionally legitimated representative denominational assemblies elected to govern the church.

UN observer Lorne Gunter comments: «Rather than the People's Assembly being comprised of members or deputies from around the world, elected by and accountable to the people they represent [as is at least theoretically the case with the General Assembly], it would likely be made up of the heads of civil society NGOs, and, under most scenarios, only those NGOs accredited by the UN.

The Grand National Assembly, made up of elected members who are ninety - nine per cent Muslim Turks, makes the laws concerning secular affairs and punishments which govern the country.

There are no professional clergy in the Baha'i faith but in areas where there are a large number of the faithful, members elect a national spiritual assembly who provide guidance and perform religious ceremonies such as weddings and funerals.

By 1788 they had approved the formation of a General Assembly to be composed of ministerial and ruling elders elected annually by the presbyteries.

The Spartan political system was one of checks and balances: two royal families, five annually rotating elected officials (ephors), a senate (gerousia) of men over sixty and a popular assembly of all citizens (Homoioi or «equals»).

Olga is also the president of the ten - person Fair Trade council, an assembly of employees elected by employees who lead decision - making processes concerning the use of funds allocated by Fair Trade USA for all workers.

At every General Assembly, our members elect the World Board, who shape the direction of our work and appoint Affiliates to committees, working groups and task forces on topics like the development of standards or the facilitation of Organic Agriculture in developing countries.

He was the great - nephew of President Zachary Taylor and elected the mayor of Frankfort, state representative to the Kentucky General Assembly and a member of the State Senate.

IBCoCo is composed of the eight regional coordinators, of members of their regional Boards elected by regional assemblies, and of representatives of IBFAN's four Global Programmes.

It's the system of voting currently used to elect members of the Northern Ireland Assembly and select committee chairs at Westminster.

More tentatively, an elected body replacing the House of Lords could have the important function of serving as a single upper house for all these various national and regional assemblies.

While Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo is a Democrat, he ran on a fiscally conservative platform that had more in keeping with the Senate Republicans» interests — property tax cap, public employee wage freeze, spending reductions — than the majority of Democrats (particularly those who hail from downstate) in the Senate and Assembly conferences.

President Uhuru Kenyatta similarly ruled out sharing power when addressing elected members of county assemblies from his Jubilee Party on Saturday.

The talk of tax cuts come as New York City Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio is seeking a tax increase on the wealthy from Albany in order to fund universal pre-kindergarten, a move that faces an uncertain future at the Capitol (Assembly Democrats and IDC Sen. Jeff Klein support it, the Senate Republicans not so much and Cuomo says he wants more information on the plan).

Hiram Monserrate is circulating petitions to run against him, Queens Assembly hopeful Francisco Moya announced today he has landed the support of three Democratic elected officials expected to run for mayor in 2013.

Through daily meetings, all the inhabitants of the local «tents neighborhoods» vote on policy and elect their representatives for the higher national assembly.

In theory my ideal system would probably be district councils elected under AV, county councils abolished, regional assemblies elected under STV, parliament elected under FPTP, House of Lords abolished!

He said he was responding in keeping with the mandate of Article 58 of the Constitution of the Republic of Liberia, which places a duty on the President of the Republic, on the 4th Monday of January every year, to present the administration's legislative program for the ensuing session of this Honorable Legislature, and to report to the Liberian people, through you, their duly elected representatives, in Joint Assembly, on the State of the Republic.

Bailey, a Bronx district leader, has close ties to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who was chair of the Bronx committee until he was elected to the chamber's top post last year.

At first blush, this would mean a fast timetable: The Legislature approves the amendments in a potential special session this month and then by the newly elected (or re-elected) lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly by January, with a referendum in the fall of 2017.

Spano is term limited from seeking another four years as the mayor of Yonkers, a post he's held since 2013, when he was elected out of the state Assembly.

He is not, unlike many of the state's Democratic elected officials — including NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito — going to Puerto Rico for the Somos el Futuro conference.

Kaminsky, first elected to the Assembly in 2014, ran the Senate campaign on a platform of ethics reform after Skelos was ousted following a corruption conviction in December.

In the interest of brevity I will surmise with this Declaration, that this high powered and highly motivated Commission will follow the money, and if I believe you are part of the large honest majority of elected representative in Albany, NY, Assembly or the Senate, you can breathe a sigh of relief, because you won't be lumped in with the guilty.

The eighth link features a photo of Heastie himself, standing on the rostrum at the front of the Assembly chamber on Feb. 3, 2015 — the day he was elected to replace Assemblyman Sheldon Silver as speaker, becoming the first African - American in New York history to hold that leadership post.

The government authorised an elected assembly that considered online input by citizens and produced a draft constitution over a period of just 3 to 4 months.

Russian voters will elect 450 deputies to Russia's State Duma on Sunday, in the seventh election for the lower chamber of Russia's bicameral Federal Assembly since the legislature's founding in 1993.

On Sept. 18, Russians went to the polls to elect the State Duma — the lower chamber of the bicameral Federal Assembly.

However, the party has also reiterated its belief in City Regions, a policy first mooted in the wake of the 2004 North - East regional assembly referendum defeat — stating that it will pass an «English Devolution Act» if elected into government, giving more powers to City and also County regions, and replacing the House of Lords with an elected Senate of the Nations and regions to work as a forum for regional representation.

Thus after repeated entireties by your elected Governor to both the Assembly and the Legislature, to take up action and to pass my Anti-Corruption Bill, I was ignored this past Legislative session and now deem it in the essential interest of the people of New York to accomplish the goals of my Anti-Corruption Campaign via other means, a «Mooreland Commission» composed of the best legal minds in the State of New York.

Not surprisingly, the number of first time candidates outnumber the incumbents (10 to 7; the full list appears after the jump), and the highest - level elected to sign on is Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, who has been calling for many of these changes for some time and probably stands to gain if redistricting is indeed taken out of the hands of elected officials.

Skartados was first elected to a two - year term in the Assembly in 2008 to represent the district that encompasses the city and town of Newburgh, Marlborough, Lloyd and the city of Beacon.

Yorkshire First, the North East Party, the Campaign for the North and Mebyon Kernow offer an alternative programme of decentralisation, which is intrinsically bottom up, and based on the establishment of directly elected regional assemblies, with powers equal to those of the Scottish parliament.

Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa was elected to another five - year term on the board this week, with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie applauding the move to «ensure the board has the strong leadership necessary to continue the legacy of our state's education system.»

But in the absence of directly elected regional assemblies in England, it is unclear how Labour plans to bring together incongruent levels of territorial government: think of Scotland compared to, say, the Leeds City Region.

He also called on Ghanaians to elect patriotic people as assembly members and explained that committed assembly members would be in a better position to ensure effective planning and implementation of issues that would reflect the interest of the people.

City of Yonkers business owner Joe Pinion, who has worked on presidential campaigns and made appearances on CNN, announced his candidacy for the 90th state Assembly District seat that was held by newly - elected Democratic Sen. Shelley Mayer.

«John was here in the Assembly for a couple of years when I first got elected.

Edward Hennessey, Assembly District 3, Suffolk County (Incumbent)-- Hennessey, who was elected to represent his central Suffolk County 3rd District in 2012, was the prime sponsor of a new state law that increases penalties for texting while driving.

The current MP is the Conservative David Davies, elected in 2005 and a former member for the Welsh Assembly seat of the same name.

Simon, a Democrat, was elected to the state Assembly in November of 2014.

Green Party candidates have been elected to all levels of representation; local, Dáil and European Parliament, and in 2007 the party gained its first representation in the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Green Party in Northern Ireland having become a region of the Republic's party the previous year.